Salmon Atlantic s/m, psg, prem.

Bass are able to tolerate a range of salinities as they occupy shallow waters, estuaries and out into deeper waters. Adults spend the winter in deeper water, shoal in early summer and move into coastal waters and estuaries.

Young fish are known to school in shallow waters for at least one year before joining the adults and moving offshore in the winter.

In recent years bass are being recorded further north, and this northward extension to their range could be to follow changes in sea temperature. Their distribution is thought to be highly affected by water temperature.

Life Cycle, Reproduction and Feeding

Bass mainly feed on shrimp and molluscs but are also a schooling predator of crustacea, squid and smaller fish including small herring and sandeels. They are an important part of food chains in estuaries and coastal waters.